Postsecondary education and employment status, wages earned, and living arrangements of special education students out of secondary school up to 3 years: 1990

Table 109.

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                                | Percent in postsecondary     |   Percent   |   Average   |  Percent
                                |        education             |  currently  |   annual    |  living
       Type of disability       |______________________________|competitively|    total    | indepen-
                                |    Academic    | Vocational  |  employed   |compensation | dently\1\
________________________________|________________|_____________|_____________|_____________|___________
               1                |       2        |      3      |      4      |      5      |     6
________________________________|________________|_____________|_____________|_____________|___________
  All disabilities\2\ ..........|           16.5 |        14.7 |        55.0 |      $5,524 |      27.8
                                |________________|_____________|_____________|_____________|___________
Learning disabled ..............|           18.7 |        17.8 |        63.1 |       6,932 |      33.9
Serious emotional disturbance ..|           15.3 |        13.3 |        52.0 |       5,310 |      21.1
Speech/language impairments ....|           37.0 |        17.9 |        58.5 |       4,389 |      36.4
Mental retardation .............|            2.5 |         5.7 |        40.8 |       3,078 |      14.8
Visual impairment.............. |           53.9 |        14.9 |        30.3 |       2,027 |      39.3
Hard of hearing ................|           35.0 |        20.0 |        43.6 |       2,773 |      25.9
Deaf ........................   |           28.3 |        19.9 |        24.8 |       1,689 |      32.3
Orthopedic impairments .........|           30.9 |        13.4 |        26.4 |       1,636 |      16.6
Other health impairments .......|           35.1 |        23.5 |        47.5 |       4,388 |      17.2
Multiple disabilities ..........|            8.0 |         4.0 |        15.8 |         778 |       8.0
________________________________|________________|_____________|_____________|_____________|___________

\1\Living independently includes living alone, with a spouse or roommate, in a college dormitory, or in military housing not as a dependent.
\2\All conditions includes youth in each of the 11 Federal special education disability categories. Percentages are reported separately only for categories with at least 25 youth in the sample.

NOTE: Data based on students who had been out of school up to three years and had attended special and regular schools in the 1985-86 or 1986-87 school years.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, The Seventeenth Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the National Longitudinal Transition Study, 1995. (This table was prepared April 1996.)

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